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I admit it...i'm a huge fan of Harry Potter movies. And i have the impression that scientists find great inspiration watching them too. Do you remember a previous post about scientists trying to invent a prototype of the "invisible cloak"? Well now its time for "The Daily Prophet" to come to life!

In Global Influencer Summit in Shanghai, China, HP introduced a new technology. The company plans to create tablets with extremely thin screen made of flexible and nearly unbreakable plastic unlike the devices currently being marketed and the screens are made of glass. A technology that can be used to create flexible screens which, indeed, we will be able to "wear" them. Attached to our clothing - wearable technology will be a fact really soon...maybe sooner than we thought...

We 'll just have to be patient until 2014 or 2015 when they will be available to the market.

I've read that car industry Toyota has already developed the idea of Fun-Vi that gives the ability to the driver to change the interior and exterior colour of his car! Wouldn't it be amazing?

Imagine clothes, accessories, shoes that can change their appearance... The potentials are innumerable! 

A Day made of glass

Have you ever wondered how everyday life will be in the near future? The video "A Day made ​​of glass» created by Corning helps us take a look...

Corning Incorporated is a company that specialises in glass and ceramics for high-technology systems.

Fashion promotion version 2.0

Let's go for window shopping. Examples of future technologies that may define future fashion promotion.  

Clothing retailer C&A in Brazil are using high tech hangers to show the popularity (or unpopularity) of their clothes. Called FashionLikes, the campaign relies on visitors to C&A’s site to like clothing items. 

If you consider that social media have become part of our lives, lots of likes for the clever idea!

A technological innovation that gives shoppers an interactive experience for hundreds or maybe even thousands of shoes so that they can learn a lot about the shoe even if it is not physically in the store.

Adidas actually launched it's adi-VERSE Wall in it's Flagship Store in London, England, on Oxford Street in November 2011.

Two interesting concepts:

1. Interactive Window Concept made for the module Advanced Interface Design at Hyper Island hosted by North Kingdom.

Made by:Beatriz Areilza

Music: Bonobo (Ninja Tune Ltd)

2. Concept of an interactive shopping window at the Philips ExperienceLab at the HighTech Campus in Eindhoven The Netherlands.

And last but not least... the beautiful Maison Hermès digital window display in Tokyo(2009-2010). 

When I grow up, i want to be a power outlet

The past few days the weather here in Thessaloniki goes something like this: Morning-sun, noon-wind, afternoon-rain. Well, friends all these elements of nature could be transformed into great amounts of energy with the use of the right technology.

I've already mentioned kinetic energy in a previous post (the one about wrist watches, remember?) but let's take it one step forward.

Scientists at the University of Bolton in the U.K. are developing a fiber that not only absorbs energy from the its wearer’s body movements, but also from surrounding elements such as the wind, rain, and sun.

Supported by £1 million in funding from the Knowledge Centre for Materials Chemistry, Bolton researchers are working with their counterparts at GK Electronics and Nanchang Hangkong University in China to further develop its revolutionary material, which is flexible enough to be woven into clothing.

“Our hybrid photovoltaic-piezoelectric material has so much potential that it can be woven into everything, including laptop and mobile phone cases,” says Elias Siores, the university’s director of research. 

“In its casing, the appliance could be charging, as it is handled or placed near sunlight. At home, a tree with needle-like fibers, like a pine tree, could be converting sun, wind, and rain into electrical energy which is stored ready for charging.”

Clothing that powers our phones and iPods? If this research has a successful outcome, this material could transform the fashion world.